What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
I am only one, but still I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Many people know so little what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves and find nothing! Therefore, they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves, either.